Ralph Lauren quietly shuttered its two-year-old 20,000-square-foot store last week. Other brands are expected to close boutiques in a city that has lost its luster for cash-rich mainland Chinese tourists.

WWD’s week in quotes, culled from stories that ran the week of March 10 to March 14.

• “The borders of the world of fashion have fallen. If New Yorkers were the first people who lived a very fast life, well, now life is fast today even if you live in Pocatello, Idaho. You could live in a small town in South Africa and everyone is plugged in. Everyone is traveling even if they’re not physically traveling. They’re on the Internet. They know what’s happening. They live a fast life.” — Michael Kors

• “The first way to make product is to make it in your own factories. The second way to make it is to contract to somebody else’s factory. The third way is to work together with someone to bring our significant manufacturing expertise to bear and have them invest in a factory above and beyond all of the standards in that area. It is a factory that looks and runs like a VF-owned and -operated factory.” — Eric Wiseman, chairman, president and chief executive officer of VF Corp.

• “It’s not news to me that there are a lot of women out there — and we call them ‘women in bedrooms’ — who’ve been creating beauty content and getting millions of views, way more than any retailer or beauty brand out there. This isn’t new, but it’s mind boggling.” — Sephora’s Bridget Dolan on YouTube’s beauty vlogger phenomenon.

• “The single biggest concern as executive editor that I have right now are the seven criminal lead investigations that the Obama administration is pursuing right now…Of all the things that have a very chilling effect on our reporting, I would say that’s the biggest one now.” — Jill Abramson, New York Times.

• “[Beijing and Shanghai] are impacted more by problems of pollution and traffic, even more than by anti-corruption regulations, while second and third-tier cities are still healthy and with good potential to increase.” — Michele Norsa, Salvatore Ferragamo.

• “If you want to grow your market share and there’s a segment of your market that’s growing three times as fast as the rest of the market, well you probably want to dip your toe into that.” — Craig Johnson, Customer Growth Partners.

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